Anderson Silva
34–10 · 53 recorded bouts · 1997–2025
Anderson Silva finished 76% of 34 wins inside the distance — the 44th percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Anderson Silva, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
34–10
44 bouts on record
Finish rate
76%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 44th percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
29y
1997–2025
Longest unbeaten run
14
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
52 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | W | Tyron Woodley | — | 2 |
| 2024 | D | Chael Sonnen | Draw | 5 |
| 2022 | L | Jake Paul | — | 8 |
| 2022 | ? | Bruno Machado | — | 8 |
| 2021 | W | Tito Ortiz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Julio César Chávez Jr. | — | 8 |
| 2020 | L | Uriah Hall | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2019 | L | Jared Cannonier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Israel Adesanya | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Derek Brunson | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Daniel Cormier | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Michael Bisping | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | N | Nick Diaz | — | 5 |
| 2013 | L | Chris Weidman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Stephan Bonnar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Chael Sonnen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Yushin Okami | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Chael Sonnen | Submission | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Demian Maia | Decision | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Forrest Griffin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Thales Leites | Decision | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Patrick Côté | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | James Irvin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Dan Henderson | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Rich Franklin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Nate Marquardt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Travis Lutter | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Rich Franklin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Chris Leben | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Tony Fryklund | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Yushin Okami | DQ | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Curtis Stout | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jorge Rivera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Julio Cesar De Jesus | — | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Ryo Chonan | Submission | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Lee Murray | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Jeremy Horn | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Waldir dos Anjos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Daiju Takase | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Carlos Newton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Alexander Otsuka | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Alex Stiebling | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Roan Carneiro | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Hayato Sakurai | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Israel Albuquerque | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tetsuji Kato | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Claudionor Fontinelle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Jose Barreto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Luiz Azeredo | Decision | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Osmar Luiz Teixeira | — | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Fabrício Camões | KO/TKO | 1 |
| — | W | Raimundo Pinheiro | Submission | — |
44 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Anderson Silva competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 34 | 10 | 23 |
| Boxing | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Kickboxing | 1 | — | 1 |
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 183 light heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Anderson Silva on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-12. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.